Cat-Poo-Chino and Captive Wildlife

Tourist Perceptions of Balinese Kopi Luwak Agrotourism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12418697
AutoresJes Hooper (0000-0001-6840-7606, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter Devon United Kingdom, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Páginas1-21
Fecha de publicación2022-06-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociety and Animals (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15685306-bja10094
OpenAlexW4283803833
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas35

Kopi luwak, known as the world’s most expensive coffee, is made from coffee beans that have been partially digested by the Asian palm civet ( Paradoxurus hermaphroditus ). This study aims to assess how tourists perceive the inclusion of captive civets within curated Balinese kopi luwak tours by analyzing 3,364 reviews of 25 sites housing live civets, posted to the tourist review platform, TripAdvisor, between October 2011 and March 2020. Overall, reviewers concerned with animal welfare were more likely to leave a negative review. Two emergent themes, encounters with caged animals and encounters with sleeping animals, are explored through a multispecies lens. Civet displays are discussed in relation to passive and true animal encounter, animal dignity, shared suffering, and cognitive dissonance. Although caged practices persist across sites, results also indicate new forms of concealed cruelty as civets are likely sedated to enable photographic souvenirs

Animal welfare · Archaeology · Biology · Dignity · Ecotourism · Geography · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tourism · Veterinary medicine · Visitor pattern · Wildlife · Wildlife tourism · Animal and Plant Science Education · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Psychology · Ecology